Lake Powell

My sister Amy got us a weekend on a houseboat! It was so cool! This houseboat had 4 queen beds, and HUGE deck on top, a deck out front and back, a paddle boat, an enormous living room with a big flat screen, and huge kitchen. This thing was the bomb dot com. We took it to the big sand hill by lone rock, and then parked at lone rock for the weekend. The weather- amazing. Everyone else had clouds and wind in utah... but not Powell. It never seems to fail us.

This is us at the sand hill... I'm in the white pants and Amy is in the black... and my mom is in the gray. It took us 15 minutes to climb this thing! All 3 of us were so out of shape! By the time we got to the top, the kids had climbed up it three times! lol! BUT we made it all for the thrill of running down it! Not much for the climb...lol

Here are the kids at the top....for the 4th time! lol! I think they got more of thrill out of running down it than the adults did.

James dug this hole... and kept digging..and digging... until he could stand in it and have his head covered. James is 6'3! It was so cool! He dug so far down that water started coming up through it. It took them 15 minutes to fill it back up again! lol! The things we do for entertainment!

Here is my lovely mother! Her pig tails are so cute!

My mom is this amazing braider for hair. When I was little, my favorite way she did my hair was a circle braid. I felt like Heidi (ya know the movie- I loved it). Anywho, it was so hot and my hair was not working out so well...so my mom came to the rescue. Isn't this amazing? I kept it in til I went home and showed J.D. ( J.D. went hunting with Chet, so he missed out on Powell. :-( Anywho, I got home, excited for J.D. to see my hair. I said, "HUN! do you like my hair?" His reply, "um...you look like a polygamist, so no." I guess I won't be doing my hair like this ever again. We caught a huge cat fish! We were going to grill it, but it didn't sound good for dinner so we let him go. Lucky sucker!

Here is some of the crew on the paddle boat. These guys thought they were going to go far out on this thing..... they didn't get very far. haha!

My sister's friend borrowed a razor! Dawson wanted to ride this thing all day. He was in his glory!

Here is 9 year old Tason driving this thing! Plus Layne, Rylee, and Dawson!

A huge THANK YOU to Amy for getting the houseboat and inviting us to go! We had a blast!

Yuba with the Stevens'

This year we had only two lake trips, but they were AWESOME! We first spent a weekend at Yuba with J.D.'s family for labor day weekend. Chet and Bobi Sue brought their boat, and mom and dad Stevens brought their jet ski's! It was a blast! As you can see from the pictures below. We camped there Sunday night and it was so amazing. We went tubing, a little fishing, and little jet ski scrambling, and enjoyed some yummy smores!

J.D. did a little wake boarding...

He is just Oh So Fine!

Here are the girls! Bobi Sue, Loni, Destry, and me. It was so much fun! We went for another tube ride on Monday, and the wind was so strong, the waves were like ocean waves! it was unreal crazy!

Dawson got to ride for a bit on the tube- he didn't like it too much. He was brave and tried it, but then he just wanted to ride in the boat.

We put J.D., Parker, and his friend on the tube....needless to say it was just way to tempting to make sure this was a rough ride! lol!

If you can click on this pic to make it bigger, do it. Uncle Parker's face is priceless!

Everyone went on rides and I decided to stay on the beach for a bit and create this masterpiece! This is the best sand castle I've ever built. I would have kept going, but my sweet Dawson decided this was too good to be true and had a blast kicking it over.... little turd!

I think Dawson would have ridden the jet ski's all day if he could. He loves to go for rides on anything and especially loves it if he gets to drive.

It was such an unforgettable weekend! We can't wait to go again!